. Among the cannibals of New Guinea : being the story of the New Guinea mission of the London Missionary Society . gold-diggersgoing there, and from the good report of the placegiven by the discoverer, Captain Moresby, and alsofrom the fact of Eastern Polynesian teachers havingbeen located there the previous year by and Gill. Under other circumstances, thegetting our goods on shore and unpacked, and packed and on board, the landing andre-embarking of teachers, etc., would have been anenjoyable excitement; but in our great grief it was allconfusion, and like a dream whe
. Among the cannibals of New Guinea : being the story of the New Guinea mission of the London Missionary Society . gold-diggersgoing there, and from the good report of the placegiven by the discoverer, Captain Moresby, and alsofrom the fact of Eastern Polynesian teachers havingbeen located there the previous year by and Gill. Under other circumstances, thegetting our goods on shore and unpacked, and packed and on board, the landing andre-embarking of teachers, etc., would have been anenjoyable excitement; but in our great grief it was allconfusion, and like a dream when we actually sawthe yohn Williams being towed out of the harbourby our little Ellengowan with our friends on least I can say is, that we felt lonely, and couldnot help thinking of the beautiful home and pro-sperous mission we had left at Lifu, and of the happyhome we might have had in England, with our dearchildren around us. But these were not the thoughtsto be indulged in by a pioneer missionary, and weknew from experience that they were only to beexorcised by work, plenty of which had to be done. rORT MORESBY, SHOWING MISSION STATION. EXP LOR A TION. 65 before the return of the Ellengowan from PortMoresby. My colleague, Mr. Lawes, soon found himself in themidst of work, excitement, and anxiety. The teachershad erected, at the mission station, good houses forthemselves and their friends, such as they had beenaccustomed to in the South Seas, and Mr. Lawes hadtaken a weather-board house from Sydney, also thetent which we got in London for the mission. TheJohn Williams and the Ellengoivan remained at PortMoresby until these were put up, the crews of bothvessels assisting in their erection, and doing all intheir power, not only to make the stores secure andthe house comfortable, but also to maintain and in-crease the good feeling existing between the missionand the people. The teachers had only been thereabout a year, and although the place was consideredtolerably heal
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